Metallic tag



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M. KERSTEN. METALLIC TAG;

. Patented Apr. 1, 1884.

WITNESSES PAT NT MARZELL KERSTEN, OF GARFIELD, IOWA.

METALLlC TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,180, dated April 1, 1884.

Application filed December 22,1883. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARZELL KERSTEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Garfield, in the county of Jones and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Tags; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will. enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure l is a perspective View of my im- 4 proved metallic tag, showing it ready for use.

Fig. 2 is a similar view with the eyelet clinched, as it appears when the device is in use. Fig. 3 is a perspective View, representing a modified construction of the device; and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional View through the center of the eyelet.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to metallic tags adapted to be attached to bundles or packages of merchandise, trunks, and for other purposes for which shipping -tags are ordinarily used; as well as for the sealing of railway-cars, mailpouches, and other purposes which wiil readily suggest themselves; and my improvement consists in the detailed construction of a tag of that class, which will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A denotes a strip of sheet metal, which is doubled upon itself so as to form a loop, B, at one end. Made in one piece with this strip, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or made separately therefrom and suitably attached thereto, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, is a plate, 0, upon which the address is written. When this plate is made of sheet metal, it will be found convenient to paint it with some dark paint, upon which the address may be written with chalk, or light paint may of course be used if it is desired to address the tag in pencil or ink. Again,

some sort of a paint or composition may be used which can readily be removed by scratching the plate with a sharp point, so that the tag may be addressed by simply scratching the letters on the plate.

In that part of the strip to which the addressing-plate is attached is punched a hole, D, and in the opposite leg of the strip is punched an eyelet, E, adapted to fit into the eyelet-hole D. When the tag has been attached by its strip to the article which is to be marked, it is fastened thereon by flattening the two parts or legs of the strip upon each other, so that the eyelet will project through the eyelet-hole, after which it is clinched with any suitable eyelet-punch, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

If desired, that part of the strip in which the eyelet is made may be enlarged, as shown at F in Fig. 3, whereby the body of the strip may be made of less width than otherwise.

These tags can be made at a small cost, will be found always ready for use, and can be clinched to the article on which they are to housed in a moment of time.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- As an article of manufacture, a metallic tag consisting of a strip of sheet metal doubled upon itself, and having at the free end of one of its legs an eyelet punched in the metal, and at the free end of its other leg a plateintegral with it, adapted to be marked with the'address, 8m, and an eyelet-hole adapted to lit the eyelet, whereby the two legs or parts of the tag-strip may be clinched together, substantially as shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto afiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARZELL nnns'rnn.

Witnesses:

FRANK A. ANTHONY, ROBERT A. NORTON. 

